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Operation Olive Branch

I did an episode of “Heat” for China’s CGTN America yesterday on the Turkish offensive (Operation Olive Branch) in Kurdish-controlled Afrin, in northwestern Syria, along with

  • Guney Yildiz, visiting fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
  • Giran Ozcan,  representative of the Peoples’ Democratic Party to the United States, a Kurdish pro-minority party
  • Metin Gurcan, a security analyst and columnist for Al-Monitor’s Turkey Pulse.

That was excellent company, so here is their wisdom:

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